For several days today has been forecast as the best day of the week with absolutely classic wind profile for wave, re-inforced by everything Kevin had seen on the latest weather charts and the morning brief reflected this optimism.
Sadly it wasn't to be with a constant stream of heavy showers until lunchtime. When they abated after lunch people started to launch on to the ridge. There were no visible signs of wave and nobody contacted any for a long time and even the 2 or 3 that did reported it as very messy. The highest was by a local to 10,000 feet and our Brent Tor colleague David J got to about 7,000 feet.
The rest of us having tried several times and failing fell back to the ridge which by now had some wave rotor sat right along it and it was like being in a tumble drier! Another day for exciting approaches and landings.
Forecast not great for tomorrow but we plan on flying before decamping back to North Hill.
